Anybody else got (grand)parents with wierd voting oppinions?

[Fr0dders]

Take my grandmother.

"do you approve of gordon brown" i say. "no" is her reply. She thinks he's done a crap job and tony blair was much better.

"what do you think of our local mp, Edd Balls" i say, "hate him" is her reply. She thinks he's a horrible little man.

Who did she vote for ...

Labour of course, because she votes for the party regardless of how crap she thinks the current government is doing or much she doesnt like her local MP.

She's a miners daughter, from a mining town in scotland and says she could never vote anything other than labour as it would be disrespecting her roots.

Anybody else got family with similarly strange viewpoints ?

 

[ron3003]

She probably remembers the Poll Tax, Back to Basics, the frittering away of North Sea Oil and Gas and all the other ****ups before your time

 

[Glaucus]

the frittering away of North Sea Oil and Gas

That was hardly a **** up. It paid off a lot of national debt which allowed are economy to grow.
In fact we could do with another resource just like that to pay of labours debts again.

If miners went back to work that would never off been such a big issue. you can not hold the country to ransom, then complain when you don't get your way and end up losing your jobs.

Yeah poll tax was very badly implemented.

 

[PermaBanned]

She probably remembers the Poll Tax, Back to Basics, the frittering away of North Sea Oil and Gas and all the other ****ups before your time

As in the album?

 

[Nix]

Voting... the other football.

"Who do you support?"

"Lib Dems."

"Oh, I heard they were losing first-half but now it's gone into injury time."

 

[Muffin`]

In fact we could do with another resource just like that to pay of labours debts again.

What, like the Falklands.

There just isn't enough working class tory in places like that.

 

[Fr0dders]

She probably remembers the Poll Tax, Back to Basics, the frittering away of North Sea Oil and Gas and all the other ****ups before your time

the thing that confuses me the most is that she doesnt approve of the current government and gordon brown.

She thinks they've done a bad job and wants change.

But then she votes labour, effectively confirming she's happy with the current regime and wants things to go on as they are.... but she doesnt.

She votes labour purely because she "supports the party" and its beliefs of old. The fact those beliefs have long been abandonned has missed her completely, and she still supports a party that no longer stands for the old fashioned beliefs she thinks they do. Try and tell her this, she doesnt want to know, she has to vote labour as it would be wrong for her to do otherwise

 

[cm1179]

simple case of she's afraid of change it would seem to me

 

[moss]

My granmothers pretty much exactly the same.

 

[I get around]

I'm sure the conservatives messed her dad up big time seeing as he was a miner. Therefore she is voting to keep the tories from power.

 

[Westyfield2]

Sounds to me like she supports Labour, but not nuLabour.

There's a lot of it I think, yes mainly amongst the working class, who will always vote Labour no matter how **** they are, just because it's traditional to vote Labour. And as for voting Conservative? They're just stuck-up toffs!


Seems a bit dim to me really!..

 

[Street]

I'm sure the conservatives messed her dad up big time seeing as he was a miner. Therefore she is voting to keep the tories from power.

My missus won't vote for Conservative because shes from a mining area originally.. Much to the amusement of my dad trying to wind her up about Maggie because he was better off during that period and thought she was great!

 

[GravyMonster]

On a similar note, my Grandmother despised Winston Churchill. Never actually got a chance to ask her why though.

 

[Sheff]

Well, considering my Grandad was the head of a labourer's union, and campaigned for worker's rights and a minimum wage... he's entitled to his views I guess.

(I'm too scared to ever disagree with him!)

 

[I get around]

My missus won't vote for Conservative because shes from a mining area originally.. Much to the amusement of my dad trying to wind her up about Maggie because he was better off during that period and thought she was great!

Yeah, it's alright if you come from money.
My grandad lost his job and his house.

 

[Maccy]

One of my grandparents used to be an active BNP supporter. He didn't fully understand their policies and just voted for them because they had "British" in the party name.
It took a good few hours sitting down and explaining them to him before he realised what an idiot he'd been and said he wanted nothing to do with them ever again!

 

[Street]

Yeah, it's alright if you come from money.
My grandad lost his job and his house.

Thats the thing.. I don't, my dad was a self employed mechanic/car dealer at the time and was better off.

 

[D.P.]

That was hardly a **** up. It paid off a lot of national debt which allowed are economy to grow.
In fact we could do with another resource just like that to pay of labours debts again.

If miners went back to work that would never off been such a big issue. you can not hold the country to ransom, then complain when you don't get your way and end up losing your jobs.

Yeah poll tax was very badly implemented.

Poll tax wasn't well implemented but as a taxation system it is far fairer than retarded council tax.

 

[platypus]

Ignorance mostly.

 

[The Running Man]

one of my friends voted bnp locally and lib dem nationally?! i was like wtf?!

sorry i know its not my grandparent but i was a bit surprised"